Feminist View On Feminism

Charlotte Perkins Gilman was an American lecturer, writer, feminist and publisher who was a leading theorist in women’s rights. Gilman’s childhood was surrounded by poverty due to the fact that her father had left the family and it left the mother to fend for her and her children. Most of the education that she was lucky to receive was limited and irregular, Perkins would go to her town library to study books and novels considering her family couldn’t afford a formal education for her as a child. But, she did attend Rhode Island School of Design so she did receive some form of formal education. As Gilman aged, her writings and essays became more concise and sophisticated compared to when she was a younger woman.

Early feminism was typically focused only on white women, likely because racism was still extremely prominent at the time feminism began emerging. It was not until Kimberlé Crenshaw introduced the term “intersectionality” in 1989 that feminism started to look at oppressed group’s needs (Nash, 2008, 2). Intersectionality is a way of thinking that acknowledges that when a person has identities that belong to more than one oppressed group, it impacts their quality of life more negatively. In this paper, I will argue that intersectionality is important in the discussion of feminist theories and activism because it ensures that feminism is for all women, not just a select group of them. Intersectionality has changed the way the feminist movement handles the overlapping of different identities, which has helped feminist theorists understand the experiences of women of colour much more clearly. While intersectionality has a very important role in the conversation and practice of feminism, there are certainly critiques of the concept that should be brought up. These critiques, however, can offer a way to improve the study of intersectionality.

Charlotte Perkins Gilman primarily advocated for women to be financially self-supporting through many of her works specifically Women and Economics. Gilman believed that to achieve the ideal “new woman,” females needed to be educated in economics and have no need to rely on men. Gilman further analyzed this idea in her book Women and Economics where

Charlotte Perkins Gilman, an influential feminist and social critic, encouraged women to be involved in the public sphere, and not be house servants who work for their husbands. In her 1898 work Women and Economics, she discusses the importance of financial equality and writes that “When women stand free as economic agents, they will… [... better fulfil their duties as wives and mothers and contribute] to the vast improvement in health and happiness of the human race.” Her writing projected that women were economically independent raise their children and fulfil their roles as wives better than those who were economically dependent on their husbands. At a time when there were “high rents and high costs of living,” additional income would help mothers ensure that their family had proper housing and the necessities they needed to live. Charlotte Perkins Gilman conveys that women who are economically independent will further humans by contributing more to their families.

Introduction The feminist criminological theories has transformed the current criminal justice system by radically challenging the distorted image associated with women criminality. The aim of this report is to identify and analyse the weaknesses and strengths of the feminist theory in criminology. This will be achieved by looking at the foundation of the theory, how the theory explains offending behaviour, and the future direction of the theory. Foundation of Feminist Criminological Theory The initial feminist criminological theory emerged out of the second-wave of feminism during the late 1960’s with the primary aim to address the significance of gender in relations to crime while challenging the perspective of women offending in criminology

“The labor of women in the house, certainly, enables men to produce more wealth than they otherwise could; and in this way women are economic factors in society. But so are horses.” Stated by Charlotte Perkins Gilman. She compared the labor of women to a horse because just as a horse has no say neither did women. She states that men could be wealthier if women were to work instead of doing only house work but they are entitled to keep up the house and that is there economic function in society. Charlotte Perkins Gilman was a huge feminist in her time and influenced women through her literature such as The Yellow Wallpaper which displayed the struggles of women through her mind of being forced to listen to the orders of a man of what would

Comprehension Exercise Gilman, known for her most famous work, “Women And Economics” was a novelist, activist, academic and journalist who fought against patriarchy of her time. During Gilman’s life she, “sought to eradicate marriage” Charlotte Perkins Gilman A Biography. Davis. C.J. Stanford University Press. (2003).

I believe that this train of thought addresses the cause of criminal behavior in women because many viewpoints that fall under the umbrella of feminism are given as different causes of criminal conduct in women .Feminist criminology lacks evidence of a woman’s crime. Women's activist theories not only strive to elucidate criminal wrong doing, exploitation and additionally join together theory with practice to create more impartial answers for the crime at hand.

Women were striving to change their daily lives. They were seen as the center of the household, and moral leaders of the family. The men would work, and provide for the family. Gilman emphasizes these things when she talks about how she feels “confines and dominated by those around her, particularly her husband” (Gilman 60). Gilman also, “believed that women should be financially

One thing in these two chapters that caught my attention was the feminist theories of criminology. The feminist theory is a group of theories that have several ideologies in common. The feminist theories believe that gender is a main element of an individual’s social life. This social life includes being a criminal offender, being a victim, and criminal justice processing. The feminist theories also believe that because of patriarchal sexism, women and girls have been steadily excluded or disregarded in criminology. They feel that women have been excluded as both professionals and as the subjects of study.

When I first entered this class, I thought I had a pretty good idea about what feminism and gender women’s studies were. I had already been a self-declared intersectional feminist for a number of years and came into the class to help build upon the knowledge that I already had and help strengthen and deepen my personal definition of feminism. After only the first few classes, though, I realized that what I knew was only the tip of iceberg. I quickly realized that there were all of these systems of violence against different groups of marginalized peoples that were deeper and more complex than I could have imagined based on the level of knowledge I came into the class with. Every week I found that my definition was being broadened and the way I viewed “mainstream feminism” was being challenged. As a whole, I can confidently say that I have gotten a lot more from this class than I had originally expected.

Feminist theory is a body of literary, philosophical, and sociological analysis that explores the inequality that exists between men and women in societies around the world. Feminist theory consists of various subcategories that explain gender inequality through differing causal factors. All of the varied subcategories unanimously contend that men and women should be equal within the political, economic, sexual, and social spheres of society.

“You’re a Hardcore Feminist, I Swear,” by Jessica Valenti focuses on the different perceptions and definitions of being a feminist. According to Valenti, most us are undercover feminists, we are afraid to admit it because we are concerned what others will think, or have a lack of clarity regarding the definition. Feminism is largely seen as all about the anti’s, especially anti-men, but it is primarily concerned with progression and equality rather than anti anything. Valenti debunks many modern counter-arguments for the feminist movement such as things are fine the way they are, feminism is outdated and tackles the lack of clarity regarding feminism itself. Recent polls demonstrate most women support feminist goals, like equal pay, ending violence against women, childcare, women’s healthcare and so on. To Valenti, feminism is simply about belief in equality of the sexes, and the movement organized around this belief. Feminists are everywhere and many people support feminist goals without even considering to be a feminist.

The article of “Cultural Relativist and Feminist Critiques of International Human Rights – Friend or Foes?” the article seeks to understand the similarities two critiques of international human rights made by cultural relativism and feminist and the second is how these two critiques have come to oppose each other in the realm of women’s international human rights. The paper begins by defining kinds of human rights, feminism, and universalism from cultural point of view in relation to international human rights. Then analyse the similarities and equations among feminism and universalism. And this paper also reviewing the challenges for women’s rights as human rights for feminism and also women’s universal human rights movement. The paper argue that international human rights must be equal to concern about

Feminism can be roughly described as a movement that seeks to enhance the quality of women’s lives by impacting the norms and moves of a society based on male dominance and subsequent female subordination. Although feminist literary writings began to gain popularity in the 20th century, feminist characters have been around for ages. “Feminist criticism’s self transformations over the past several decades as it engages with both critiques from within and encounters from without- encounters with psychoanalysis, Marxism, Post-Structuralisms, ethnic studies, post-colonial theory, and lesbian and gay studies- have produced a complex proliferation of work not easily subsumed to a single description.